In the news coverage of Newt Gingrich?s rapid rise, there is wonderment that evangelicals are willing to forgive his serial offenses against the Seventh Commandment. It is like being surprised that Catholics feel guilt, or that Unitarians put ?coexist? stickers on their bumpers.
Evangelicals like nothing more than a good conversion story ? even, evidently, when the road to Damascus also leads to Rome. Religious right leaders have compared Gingrich to the Apostle Paul and to King David, who managed to put that whole Bathsheba episode behind him. Gingrich, who has previously compared himself to Charles de Gaulle, Margaret Thatcher, Henry Clay and the Duke of Wellington, can only be pleased.
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